We Consume Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor…
— Barack Obama
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We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In…
— Paul Hawken
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The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a…
— Jim Gaffigan
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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the…
— Gary Taubes
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The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and…
— Harold Norse
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The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and…
— Kurt Bills
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Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.
— Craig Groeschel
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Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just…
— Jon Foreman
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Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce,…
— Terence McKenna
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Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
— Martin Parr
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If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more
— Colin Baker
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The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper,…
— Phil Harding
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We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of…
— Jose Angel Gurria
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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which…
— Mark Twain
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The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.
— Erik Qualman
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The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.
— Jane McGonigal
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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
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The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties.…
— Nhat Hanh
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Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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